#Marketing to kids

An investigative report from Public Eye and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN): “How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries.” Nestlé’s leading baby-food brands, promoted in low- and middle-income countries as healthy and key to supporting young children’s

Just before the Christmas holidays, Senator Bernie Sanders (Ind-VT), who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee , held a hearing: What is Fueling the Diabetes Epidemic?  The Senator’s Tweet: Some of the quotes from the Senator’s remarks are amazing.  They need to be

Now that Barbie is a feminist icon, I have to confess I have two of them in my NYU office. At one point I must have owned three, because here is an illustration from my book, Food Politics, published in 2002. The feet on the MacDonald’s Barbie are flat—she’s wearing sneakers, appropriately

I thought I had seen everything when it comes to marketing to kids, but I never would have imagined this one.  Sweet drinks aimed at kids with animal-shaped tops: “Collect them all!” The photo was sent to me by a reader who spotted these in a Safeway in a suburb of Sacramento.  I have not seem

Increasingly and more urgently concerned about the effects on children of unrestricted marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages, UNICEF and WHO have produced an invaluable manual on why and how governments must act to curb such marketing. This is a follow up to the UNICEF report I talked about